Wikitech-l May 2011

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Tag extension problem
by Jeroen De Dauw 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hey, I have some tag extension in which one of the parameters is a SPARQL query. My code is constructing this query correctly (confirmed by var_dump'ing the relevant vars), but when I put the tag in a wiki page, several spaces are getting replaced by   which breaks the query. Is there a way to make the parser not do this? (The HTML returned by my tag extension function should be embedded as-is.) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 30 May '11

30 May '11

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 23, 2011 - May 30, 2011 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 178 Bugs ASSIGNED : 14 Bugs REOPENED : 34 Bugs RESOLVED : 106 Total bugs still open: 5776 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 62 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 10 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 3 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 9 Bugs marked LATER : 14 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component TimedMediaHandler 9 Site requests 7 ArticleFeedback 5 Page rendering 3 API 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 24 Wikimedia 11 MediaWiki extensions 27 Wikipedia Mobile 1 mwEmbed 2 Top 5 Bug Resolvers sam [AT] reedyboy.net 24 mah [AT] everybody.org 15 brion [AT] wikimedia.org 15 hcatlin [AT] wikimedia.org 7 pdhanda [AT] wikimedia.org 5

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Request for comment: New hooks: DeleteAccount and MergeAccountFromTo
by Thomas Gries 30 May '11

30 May '11

Status: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/AddNewAccount is currently the only Account-adminstration related hook which changes table user - as far as I can see. Problem (solved yesterday) OpenID needs to be informed when an account is deleted or merged, which currently UserMerge extension does. There are no core functions for - Deletion or - Merging of accounts. This is reason why I added in UserMerge (declared myself as the new maintainer for this, if nobody contests) two hooks - DeleteAccount - MergeAccountFromTo The two hooks are used in OpenID only, for the moment. I did not yet create corresponding new hook description pages on MediaWiki - because the hooks are currently not part of the core. As suggested some days ago by Ryan Lane - and I support his view - such hooks should - go/come via the core, and in consequence - via Auth. The two hooks should be implemented in core as abstract public function () or whatever is conformity to our standards (pls. let me know). If you choose other names, I will commit corresponding changes in OpenID and UserMerge. Looking forward to your feedback, Tom hooks come from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/89010 hooks are consumed in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/89014 P.S. The OpenID and UserMerge extensions run on MediaWiki trunk version with recent PHP 5.3.6. Who wants to test it (URL on request)

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LiquidThreads "drag to new location" was broken. MediaWiki installations using Lqt should apply this simple fix (enclosed)
by Thomas Gries 29 May '11

29 May '11

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/89121 The patch has been already applied in http://www.translatewiki.net so that you check and confirm that the functionality - which was broken for a while - is indeed restored. Tom

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update languages/messages once per week?
by Ashar Voultoiz 29 May '11

29 May '11

Hello, The files in the languages/messages/ directory are quite big and currently altered every day. Yesterday, I had to bisect a bug and most of the delay was caused by fetching the languages files. I do not understand the purpose of this daily update, does it serves any specific purpose? I do not feel like we require up-to-date translations in trunk. I have a similar issue with not so much edited extensions for which the log is mostly i18n translations thus hiding the real code commits. That was just my Sunday morning 2 cents. -- Ashar Voultoiz

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cruise control continued
by Ashar Voultoiz 29 May '11

29 May '11

Hello, On May 28th, I have updated CruiseControl to run the PHPUnit tests grouped together as "Database". The consequences are: - parser tests are run again (yeah!) - several "write" API tests are run again too - there are failures (oh no!!) The failures are split in two groups: - a good share is related to the Block system rewrite. - the rest is parser tests for the LabeledSectionTransclusion extension Please fix the code if you have any knowledge about this code. http://ci.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/cruisecontrol/ -- Ashar Voultoiz

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XKCD: Extended Mind
by K. Peachey 26 May '11

26 May '11

http://xkcd.org/903/ -Peachey

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New committers!
by Chad 25 May '11

25 May '11

Just created a couple of new SVN accounts. Akshay Agarwal - akshay - GSoC student Ankit Garg - ankitgarg833 - GSoC student Zhenya Vlasyenko - zhenya - GSoC student Yusuke Matsubara - whym - Editor trends research Shawn Walker - swalker - Editor trends research Welcome :) -Chad

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Open Decentralized Society
by Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis 25 May '11

25 May '11

Open Decentralized Society is a project that aims at creating a Wikipedia that takes trust relations between users into consideration. It wants to create a wiki that will have different articles for each subject, articles that would be ranked based on the person who is viewing them and his trust relations. Each trust link will also have semantic meaning. Each person will try to certificate which person is a doctor, which person is a software engineer, and for each semantic meaning there will be a different graph. It is important to note that there will not be a global ranking. You could think of it as if everyone is a seed of trust for himself. This project is in its infancy. My intention is to create a community that will implement those features on mediawiki. If you are a freedom proponent. If you believe that the flow of information should be free, join me in creating the next Wikipedia. The project needs funding, peer-reviewing, programmers, security experts, lawyers. Dont hesitate to contact me: xekoukou#gmail.com http://opensociety.referata.com -- This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential, intended solely for the addressee(s), and may contain legally privileged information. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. E-mails are susceptible to alteration. I shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. Sincerely yours, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis

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dns issues during downtime
by William Allen Simpson 25 May '11

25 May '11

Today, for those of us paying attention from the outside, the downtime became impossible to monitor. One problem is that the TTL on the DNS server and maintenance records themselves is set much too short! Maybe you never thought you'd be inaccessible for an hour? Any chance master records could be moved to an anycast DNS provider? The SOA is pretty reasonable: wikimedia.org. 86400 IN SOA ns0.wikimedia.org. hostmaster.wikimedia.org. 2011052410 43200 7200 1209600 600 But the actual records are all 1 hour, so they disappeared during the downtime. And ganglia, while it looks OK: ns0.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN A 208.80.152.130 ns1.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN A 208.80.152.142 ns2.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN A 91.198.174.4 secure.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN A 208.80.152.134 ganglia.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN CNAME spence.wikimedia.org. spence.wikimedia.org. 3600 IN A 208.80.152.161 Had completely timed out in both my local cache and the Google servers while I was looking at it, and wasn't able to contact a NS anywhere to refresh. Here's the last time I saw it: ganglia.wikimedia.org. 473 IN CNAME spence.wikimedia.org. spence.wikimedia.org. 473 IN A 208.80.152.161 ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1) ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 10:06:13 2011 ganglia.wikimedia.org. 287 IN CNAME spence.wikimedia.org. spence.wikimedia.org. 287 IN A 208.80.152.161 ;; Query time: 68 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Tue May 24 10:09:19 2011

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